PUPILS at Hartshill School are once again getting the standard of education they deserve - and that's official.

Staff and pupils at the secondary school in Church Road, Hartshill are delighted that their drive to make the school better has been judged successful.

Inspectors from the government's Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) have taken back a notice to improve just over a year after they sent it out.

Head teacher Wendy Tomes said: "We're out of the notice to improve which we're all delighted about. We're no longer in any category."

The inspectors said the school had made very good progress and was set to improve even more. They said efforts to improve teaching and pupil achievement were having an impact. And they singled out Mrs Tomes, who joined the school in September last year, for particular praise.

It is the first time in three years the school hasn't been in a category of concern. In the summer of 2004 it went into special measures, which means inspectors considered it to be failing pupils.

The governors were sacked and replaced with an interim executive board to oversee improvements.

In July 2006, it came out of special measures but was given a notice to improve which means inspectors still considered it a cause for concern.

Now inspectors are saying it's giving pupils an acceptable standard of education.

Hartshill School forged a link with top performing Etone Community School and Technology College in Leicester Road, Nuneaton, last year, as part of the drive for improvements.